Barging in on this week old thread. Had Dessalines also accusing me of "racism" after commenting "found the russian" on what was obvious pro-russian propaganda.

anyway, fuck the tankie developers. fuck Dessalines.

edit: typo

Smoking and drinking. At some point I viewed smoking as "part of my personality". And I loved a good beer (that's on being Belgian). Thing is, I always had to drink way too much. I tried to quit smoking. But, every time I had a drink, I smoked again. And I was at a point where I drank - and got drunk - almost daily. So not much quitting there. Came home one night, drank way too much again, threw up in the living room and all over the toilet. Woke up and felt terribly sick, obviously. Threw up throughout the day and finally decided it wasn't worth it anymore. Been 10 months now and feeling way better, mentally and physically. Quitting drinking hasn't been that hard, to be honest. Same with smoking now. You just don't do the thing anymore, basically. That's it. I always told other people as well: "How hard is it to just not do something? I love doing nothing, it's the easiest thing ever." Nowadays, especially in Belgium, there's a lot of very good NA beers as an alternative, so that's a big plus as well.

Ty Segall's Bandcamp Radio is a pretty decent selection! That's in rotation atm

Other than that, The Mocking Stars by Lausse the Cat and Somewhere Greener by beerkat

Yes but the government had much better CGI that wasn't available to the public yet, duh

/s obligatory

Geralt of Rivia... Could be fun!

there's alternatives to driving, even for those that are financially struggling. crazy, right?

but when I say the rising fuel costs could be good for other modes of transportation, I get attacked.

eat this, car brained americans!

Useful to who? If you need an LLM to write just a basic e-mail/comment/caption you're maybe ... how do I say this nicely? Not that smart ...

If you use an LLM as a search engine, same thing.

If you use an LLM as a psychologist, same damn thing.

And the majority of people are using it for those things. It's just plain stupidity. I'm not saying there's no use to AI, but right now it's being used in a terrible way by people that have no use for it at all.

yeah, just to have all copy the same ... which sucks.

they're also looking for a videographer. and, you guessed it:

oh, yeah, sober still! I know it would be terrible to give in now, given my tendency to fall down the alcohol hole again. For the moment it's not hard at all, actually, but I often reflect on how badly I would handle the situation if I hadn't quit drinking.

being Belgian, I have to pass on a lot of good beers, tho, but I need to be able to control myself first before even thinking about an occasional drink.

I just lost my job and been sober for almost six months. This speaks to me

just like they forced reels on everyone by pushing it in the algorithm to later say "see! everyone wants reels now, they don't want photos anymore!"